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Great minds think alike I've done something similar myself. love the little touch of using the little pressure pad. Instead of sacrificing another cassette player I've bought a load of those adapters to plug an aux into a car cassette player. They're just tape heads attached to a aux cable I plug directly into so my mixer and add gain no soldering or sacrificing required :)
that sounds awesome - can you explain that process a little more in detail? Do you plug the cassette aux adapter into the line in of another tape player and then into the mixer? I am curious to try it myself
@@tommychampion8483 You'd have to see one , it is basically a cassette with a wire coming out of the back edge. you can insert into an automobile cassette player as use it as a way to amplify your cd player. www.ebay.com/i/353304566605?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-213727-13078-0&mkcid=2&itemid=353304566605&targetid=4580840328167961&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=403204656&mkgroupid=1235851284511226&rlsatarget=pla-4580840328167961&abcId=9300377&merchantid=51291&msclkid=ceb957ae9a541fd36266084f0499452f
Such a great approach. No messing around with the precious speed-variable player, just a cassette that holds the read-head. Ingenious. I bet you could sell these things of you wanted. Remember these adaptor cassettes for your car stereo? They have a head and some mechanics in them. Maybe there is some playground in there, too. Just add some tape and some more fiddling. Just an idea.
I built one of These with my grandpa and we put it inside my Gibson ga5 reissue LP junior tube amp it sounds like an Echosonic now I forgot to Mention that we made it a little bigger and the first input jack on the amp is the slapback echo option and the second output is just dry/normal
I'm currently restoring an RCA SRT-301 reel-to-reel tape machine so that I can make super-long delay loops... hacking this into cassettes is super neat. Thanks for sharing!
Is there a tutorial for creating reel to reel delays? I don't even have one yet but I'd love to see that process. Can't wait to get my first tape deck and start experimenting!!
Just realised that the tape player I'm using for this is one of those Tape Grabber ones, so I can actually record the output of the tape echo via USB. That will come in handy!
Man I FEEL you on this. Been browsing ebay like a madman but 3-heads are outrageously expensive.. praying behringer makes a clone ehe until then! looks dope
If you want to take a step up you can usually find lower end reel to reels for under $100, they almost all have three heads and can handle longer tape loops
Thanks! You are a madman. I appreciate it so much! I wish I'd thought of this in the 1980s when I was tearing tape decks and cassettes apart! I may buy a $15 Walkman and do this anyway. Nice kalimba playing!! Cheers :)
Lol i had the same idea but built one with the tape head nearer the record head and didn’t creat a loop but shorted the tape length to accommodate the head
oh WOW all the methods ive seen use multi hundred dollar equpment. gonna try this with a couple of walkmans i got at the flea market! thanks for the idea!
Well done, if you wanted a very tidy design you could wire in the secondary head to the playback circuit and use the same amplifier as the primary in playback mode
Man, I absolutely LOVE this. I have a couple of Sony TCM-20DV dictaphones that I was going to modify with jacks on the speed dial to control them via CV, but now I have to try this! Am I right in thinking that the 3rd head only needs to be a play head so an old (non-recording) Walkman would work?
@@projectnull thank you, man - I absolutely will do. I'm aiming to do it this weekend at the latest. If I can get it to work like this I like the idea of trying to find a way of varying the placement of the 3rd head to change the delay time. As for the CV control - it looks surprisingly simple (Chris Randall has shown how to do it on a video possible on his RU-vid but maybe it's on the Audio Damage one). Although I don't have modular as such, I do have a Koma Elektronik Field Kit FX and also a MIDI to CV converter so I should hopefully be able to make some kind of weird lo-fi Mellotron... maybe!
Hey this is great! I've been bending and playing a bit with cassette recorders and had a similar idea. Let me see if I get this clear: you're recording into the looped cassette with the non-opened Sony, but playing from the opened one? Because I was thinking in using a recorder that has "direct input monitoring" while recording, so that way you could use only 1 unit + the modded cassette inside, and get the live sound while recording + the sound from the read head inside the cassette (I don't know if this makes sense). What do you think?
Should work i think, just connect the play head to another player or amp and make sure the heads are aligned in the right order. Im gonna try this too because its damn hard to align an extra tape head in a cassette recorder
You’ve sold it to me. I’m going to give it a try for sure. Potentially dumb question... Could you add a second head and wire it back to the same place as the first head? So you get a further delay?
its the standard short loop length, easy to make. there are plenty of longer designs like the Chandler loop, or you can get creative and make your own. the tape doesnt even need to stay inside the cassette, you could string it across the room if you wanted
Great idea, terrible instructional video . . . the little parts we are meant to be paying attention to, how they are put together, where they go, how they are arranged - and so on - often take up less than 1/100th of the screen real estate . . . I'm not exaggerating here . . . very hard to see what you doing.
